What is the yellow sticker?whoopsy etiquette?

eloiseh

Today I got a top rump lean roast beef joint, reduced from £7.82 to £3.99! Amazing value.

Edwardia

Even though there's a fair bit of unemployment in my town, I've never come across people fighting over reduced items or taking them from others. That's frankly, uncivilised. When Maman and I go out shopping we often talk in French and people in supermarkets give us funny looks and a wide berth If someone so much as looked in my trolley they'd get told off.

Having suffered food poisoning from reduced price ASDA sausages, I've not bought reduced price meat since. Really only interested in reduced price veg. Tend to bulk buy special offers and I have heard comments about well-off people buying up special offers for the freezer muttered which is ridiculous. I ignore them.

Ma is very good at hunting down bargains and she's cheeky enough to ask assistants to reduce bread. I get embarrassed when she does that, more so than when she launches herself into the chilled reduced cabinet.

victory

Missconduct wrote: »

Last night we lucked into the Reducing area and watched as a lady literally scooped up as much as she could in her arms, then took it back to her trolley, and discovered she didn't want half of it, at which point she started negotiating with other customers and trying to trade!! That was about 9.15pm, whereas the other week when we went to the reduced area at 8pm it was completely empty.

Still, we got a £14 joint of beef for £1.50, a thing of salmon for 10p and a ham meal for 10p.

I see that happening all the time:eek: then they leave it in weird and wonderful places, like the steak mince was put near the magazines, so now they cannot sell it at all because it has not been properly kept, what a waste:mad: so that went in the back unsold and useless.

The restaurant owners there are many of them, they go for the meat straight off , whatever it is they scoop it up, great big armfuls and off they go, not so much as a glance back

EndlessStruggle

I had an experience with a woman at the yellow sticker fridge stuff in Tesco. I had picked up a ready meal and was reading it and this troll starting huffing and literally snapped at me "For (swearword) sake it's only (£1something?) if you're not gonna buy it put it back" (she VERY obviously wanted it) so I said to her that I was lactose intolerant and didn't feel like poisoning myself today and the worst bit was she wasn't even looking at me her eyes were fixed on the meal and at that time my nan came along (we go shopping together) so I offered it to her and she took it, the look on the trolls face was hilarious.

DCFC79

EndlessStruggle wrote: »

I had an experience with a woman at the yellow sticker fridge stuff in Tesco. I had picked up a ready meal and was reading it and this troll starting huffing and literally snapped at me "For (swearword) sake it's only (£1something?) if you're not gonna buy it put it back" (she VERY obviously wanted it) so I said to her that I was lactose intolerant and didn't feel like poisoning myself today and the worst bit was she wasn't even looking at me her eyes were fixed on the meal and at that time my nan came along (we go shopping together) so I offered it to her and she took it, the look on the trolls face was hilarious.

Yes thats totally out of order, was she licking her lips at the thought of buying the ready meal. Some people are just rude and need put in they're place.

Edwardia

If someone said that to me I'd say loudly since you are so obviously poor and don't care what you eat - here, have it. Reading labels when you are intolerant of/have to avoid them is sensible.

You just don't get behaviour like that in Lidl and though people buzz round the reduced stuff in ASDA I haven't experience rudeness like that.

This thread is an eye opener. I'm normally very polite but I would take exception to someone filching things out of my trolley or being that rude and give them the acid side of my tongue. Fortunately I don't hit the supermarket hangars more than once a fortnight, generally.